milesvp

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by milesvp 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand why this comment is being downvoted. It's got a minor preachy tone, but I'm not convinced the game theoretic logic is unsound. There are benefits for both sides to being freelance, but that doesn&#x2
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by milesvp 8y ago
I was just wondering if 'vanilla not being hard to grow' was compared to some other orchids, which I understand to be some of the most finicky flowers to grow.
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by milesvp 8y ago
Apparently there was a study related to this this recently. http://timharford.com/2018/05/how-much-would-i-have-to-pay-y...
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by milesvp 8y ago
Even simpler explanation is that false positives are real. All sufficiently complex systems have them. I'd imagine that triggering a false positive the first time greatly increases the likelihood that a second false positive is trigger
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by milesvp 8y ago
Right? And that that 37 second offset will change from year to year? I was waiting for the bombshell, that some minutes actually have 61 seconds in them, and some have 59 seconds (though it occurs to me that I don't know if astronomers
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by milesvp 8y ago
There's been a lot of work done in the last 5 years on animating voxel characters. You can probably do a google search and find some papers to your satisfaction. It is something of a challenge though, in that voxels used as an atomic u
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by milesvp 8y ago
Yeah, I wish I could be more help. I'm not in a position to quit my day job, even though I'm highly under utilized myself. I don't have your runway, but if I did, I'd be very tempted to take 9-12 months off to work on so
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by milesvp 8y ago
My comment to people in similar situations, is to always remember that if you have that much savings, you are closer to retirement than you realize. If you can live off of a 4% drawdown, then you have very little risk long term of ever touc
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by milesvp 8y ago
I very much disagree with most of your examples. Most people don't seem to have a good sense for how associative memories work. The brain is so good at lying to us that we think we have all these discrete pieces of knowledge, but the r
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by milesvp 8y ago
I was always disappointed I couldn't find more talks by Jack Diederich after watching this one. His approach was so practical compared to so much programming advice out there. I see now that he's got a few more talks linked from
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by milesvp 8y ago
What's interesting is I feel like the diversity of front page posts seems higher on a typical saturday night. It also feels a lot more like HN felt a decade ago on a typical workday.
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by milesvp 8y ago
I wish more people would realize that if you're busy all the time, you're almost by definition not working on the most important thing you could be. If you're busy it can be hard to not focus on the task at hand, which means
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by milesvp 8y ago
For those interested, look up The Kelly Criterion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion This is why poker players who are good enough to play at a certain table level can't maintain it if their bankroll
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by milesvp 9y ago
Simply put, if you save half of your take home, your passive income will approach your living expenses in roughly 10-15 years. And that even with a conservative draw of 3%, you can start to live off that money without touching your principl
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by milesvp 9y ago
I don't know about the startup study you're thinking of, but I've seen studies that suggest the main difference between under 30 and over 30 in the workplace is that the over 30 crowd simply spend less effort. That is to say,
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by milesvp 9y ago
For what it's worth, most of the advice I've heard about diet with regards to typeI diabetes is garbage (the typeII advice was always better). It took more than a year for an engineering friend of mine who specializes in signal pr
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by milesvp 9y ago
What's interesting about this, is that user complaints can be suspect too. I read an anecdote recently about the American auto industry. They'd ask people about what they didn't like about the cars they bought. And they'
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by milesvp 9y ago
I very much agree with this sentiment. Now has always been special, and history always repeats itself. I can't believe that current diversions and pain killers are so good, that if basic needs in the Maslow's sense of the word, fo
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by milesvp 9y ago
So much this! I have a friend who teaches special needs children. She is amazing at her job. She can handle all the worst behaving kids like you wouldn't believe. Her experience is always that the biggest problem for many (most?) of he
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by milesvp 9y ago
Lol. Do they keep their hoarded money under a matress? If it's in a bank account it's being actively used. It actually doesn't matter whether the money is in your friend's bank account or some corporate bank account, the
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by milesvp 9y ago
I suspect a lot of the long hours is actually a sort of productivity blindness. I've seen some research that suggests the people who most believe they're being effective working >40hrs/wk for more than 6 week stretches are
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by milesvp 9y ago
Tidal generation using dams is a very bad idea. You're taking energy from and releasing energy to the system at times when it's most detrimental to the inertia of the system. Basically you're stealing inertia from the rotat
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by milesvp 9y ago
Ugh. Yeah, I regret deeply buying cloth diapers for my twins. The economics looks better for twins, since you only need like 50% more, but the time premium is higher than expected with twins, so it ended up eating into too much prescious do
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by milesvp 9y ago
Nonsense. I'm happy to pay my actual health care costs (nevermind doctors don't know how much they'll charge me). I want health insurance for the crazy once in a lifetime bankrupting event. I want insurance, where if I end up
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by milesvp 9y ago
I respectfully disagree. Darkest Dungeon captured the essence of Lovecraft in ways I've not seen anywhere else. I highly recommend this game to anyone who likes brutally hard turn based 1 dimensional combat. The game requires a lot of
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by milesvp 9y ago
My experience has been that devs who struggle, will struggle with a simple for loop. This seems consistent with what I've heard from an Amazon bar raiser and the existence of fizz buzz. I'd be reluctant to give up this one sanity
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by milesvp 9y ago
If you're comfortable billing for lunch, you're probably not charging enough. I'd tend to agree though that you should be charging for debugging, but I've had some things where I couldn't in clear conscience charge
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by milesvp 9y ago
My understanding is that rasterization really made portal hard to make. They had to jump through a bunch of hoops to make it all work. Meanwhile I understand that adding portals to raytrace quake was like an afternoon's exercise. I&#x2
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by milesvp 9y ago
While they're at it they should ban tvs and computer video. video games are definitely a no-no too. They all waste so much electricity! /s Do not presume to dictate what others do. If there really are negative externalities set re
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by milesvp 9y ago
Oh dear lord yes. I was struggling to just plot some points on a plane 15 years ago, something I'd done trivially in class years prior. I finally complained to a friend, and that's how I learned about python and pygame. Damn near

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